Rocester

Julie and Phillip are like ships that pass in the night as she works on shifts in an emergency unit. They have £3,000 available to convert their garden, currently surrounded by brick walls, into a wildlife-focused space to spend more time in when they do get a chance to be together.

The first challenge is to make the budget go as far as possible, so the team source patio slabs that match the current ones to produce a bigger social space. A timber, curved path is another clever budget-friendly feature. But with wildlife the key to the garden, Lee’s rabbit out of the hat is a set of amazing bat boxes. Flo builds three custom boxes for the lower part of the garden, while Lee puts up a four-metre high freestanding 'bat post'.